Animal Farm is a tale about animals rising up against their human oppressors with visions of a socialist utopia that ends up being an autocratic dystopia. Essentially the whole book is a political satire. Orwell wrote this as an allegory to the...

Orwell makes the connection between fear tactics and economic strategy very clear in Chapter VI. Napoleon moves directly from accusing Snowball of destroying the windmill to urging the animals, “Forward, comrades! Long live the windmill! Long live...